The additional number to the Letters of Humanitas : together with John Hillen's, William Jenkin's & Doctor M'Kenzie's letters - and other documents, relative to Polly Elliott's case : to which is added, Mr. Jesse Hollingsworth's letter - and a reply to the same / by James Smith, physician.
- James Smith
- Date:
- February 9, 1801
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The additional number to the Letters of Humanitas : together with John Hillen's, William Jenkin's & Doctor M'Kenzie's letters - and other documents, relative to Polly Elliott's case : to which is added, Mr. Jesse Hollingsworth's letter - and a reply to the same / by James Smith, physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![and city council ; and what is more, to fhut the hand of charity in future vifttations, if we ever mould fufler with the like calamity again. It is well known that the funds of the city were not fufiicient to relieve the diftrefled : charity was folicited & thebenevolent fen tin liberally Irom various quarters : hut if the donations of the people are to beput into the hands of men, who prodigally will fquan- tler them away, as the doctor has reprelented, who do we fuppofe will ever lend a hand to relieve us ? I moil de- voutly pray that we may never need aftiftance again—but we may reft allured that thefe things will go abroad, and if credited, would make a very unfavorable imprefiion upon the minds of the people at large. I would advifethe Doctor to be cautious how he med- dles with public characters, left he fhould deftroy his own purpofes, and do it to his hurt; let him remember that the fame meafure he meets to others, will be meafured back to him again. I fee that he intends to collect his pieces and publifh them in a pamphlet that they may be of future ufefulnefs as well as prefent; but I fee no ufe they will be of, unlefs it is to keep alive the difagreeable feel- ings they have already occafioned, and which ought to pe- ril?) with the day. The Do&or ought to recollect, that the gentlemen he fo warmly attacks have families, and in wounding the feelings of the parents, he will wound the children alio ; and however mild the remarks of his friends may be now, there may be, fooner or later, a pen dipt in gall, for him, and it may be, as ungenerous as his is a gain ft J. Townfcnd and A. Fonerden. ]ESSK ROLLING SWORTH.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21155100_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
